Rick has a Masters degree with honours in copyright and internet law and is a partner at corporate, commercial and IT law firm, Lowndes Jordan. He focuses on digital business law, including commercial advice, capital raising, AI, IT and IP, and is one of New Zealand’s leading cybersecurity and privacy lawyers. He advises on both cybersecurity legal preparedness and in IR breach situations.

Rick was chair of Netsafe for two decades, on the founding advisory board of CERT NZ, and is the only lawyer to be accredited as a Chartered IT Professional. He is a Chartered Member of the IOD and was made a Fellow of InternetNZ in 2017.

He describes his role as pouring new tech wine into old legal bottles and is currently riding a wave of new AI issues both for his own firm and for clients seeking legal and data governance and security assurance on the AI tools they wish to use.

Rick lives in Glenorchy, near Queenstown, and commutes regularly to Auckland where Lowndes Jordan is based.